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Fiction. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Margaret Birstein, Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster. Each of the twenty- one stories in AND SO IS THE BUS is an evocative "reporting" of Yossel Birstein's encounters with the daily riders of Jerusalem's many bus lines housewives, Chasids, beautiful women, a blind man, a shoemaker, an angry daughter, bus drivers, and more. These scrupulous translations give us a feel for the tone of Birstein's Yiddishized Hebrew a tone that in savoring personalities and conversations is empathically attuned to his chance meetings from one day to the next. "The world is moving on," says a character in Stolen Glance. "And after a short pause adds: 'And so is the bus.'"
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And So Is the Bus, Yossel Birstein
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- And So Is the Bus
- Subtitle
- Jerusalem Stories
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Yossel Birstein
- Publisher
- Dryad Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 148
- ISBN10
- 1928755232
- ISBN13
- 9781928755234
- Series
- Description
- Fiction. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Hebrew by Margaret Birstein, Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster. Each of the twenty- one stories in AND SO IS THE BUS is an evocative "reporting" of Yossel Birstein's encounters with the daily riders of Jerusalem's many bus lines housewives, Chasids, beautiful women, a blind man, a shoemaker, an angry daughter, bus drivers, and more. These scrupulous translations give us a feel for the tone of Birstein's Yiddishized Hebrew a tone that in savoring personalities and conversations is empathically attuned to his chance meetings from one day to the next. "The world is moving on," says a character in Stolen Glance. "And after a short pause adds: 'And so is the bus.'"